On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:33:46PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
Yeah,
it's not an easy fix but the problem we are having right now is that
the system is thrashing. Why the OOM code isn't fixing it I don't know.
It just feels busted.
So OOM code kills a (random) process in hopes of freeing up
some pages but if this process is stuck in diskIO, nothing
can be freed and everything grinds to a halt. Is this right?
Yep, exactly.